Therapist, Occupational

1 week ago

Worcester, Massachusetts, United States UMass Memorial Health Full time $80,000 - $120,000 per year

Are you an internal caregiver, student, or contingent worker/agency worker at UMass Memorial Health? CLICK HERE to apply through your Workday account.

Exemption Status:

Non-Exempt

Hiring Range:

$ $62.13

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate's experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details:

Monday through Friday, Saturday, Sunday

Scheduled Hours:

8:00-4:30

Shift:

4 - Mixed Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours:

0

Cost Center:

Occupational Therapy

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver – regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Evaluates, plans and performs treatments to alleviate physical, cognitive/perceptual, psychosocial and or developmental dysfunction using purposeful activities and restorative therapeutic techniques. Participates in departmental activities to assure smooth operations and facilitate program enhancement.

I. Major Responsibilities:

  1. Administers therapy evaluations and develops treatment plan for physically, cognitively, developmentally and/or functionally disabled patient populations, including infants and children, adolescents, adults, geriatrics and frail elderly, inpatient or outpatient as assigned.
  2. Analyzes and interprets data and assesses individual's current functional ability. Creates a plan of care that addresses identified problems. Researches specific problems as required and makes a new plan of care when appropriate. Consults with physician regarding any contradictions or alternative forms of therapy. Assesses patient's progress, as related to their rehabilitation potential.
  3. Designs treatment plan based on initial evaluation and assessment. Establishes short and long term goals for patients. Utilizes therapeutic interventions and activities to remediate, restore, and/or compensate for losses in physical, perceptual, cognitive, sensory, psychosocial and functional skills.
  4. Selects purposeful activities suited to the patient's emotional, intellectual and physical functional level in order to upgrade the patient's performance to maximal independence.
  5. Educates patient, family and other caregivers in therapy program and goals. Participates in patient care meetings, collaborates with team members, assists with discharge planning. Discusses patient's treatment and progress with physician including any new or inconsistent findings.
  6. Documents care provided in medical record. Completes documentation which supports therapy billing and departmental statistics. Assists in maintenance of orderly, safe and efficient working environment. Assists with inventory and purchasing as assigned.
  7. Assists in education and development of staff. Delegates caseload to therapist assistants as appropriate, overseeing quality of care and supervising performance. Collaborates with team members to assure patient coverage and equitable work distribution.
  8. Participates in department quality improvement/assurance activities and program development initiatives.
  9. Complies with established departmental policies, procedures and objectives.
  10. Attends variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.
  11. Demonstrates use of Quality Improvement in daily operations.
  12. Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
  13. Respects diverse views and approaches, and contributes in maintaining an environment of professionalism, tolerance, civility and acceptance toward all employees, patients and visitors.
  14. Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.

All responsibilities are essential job functions.

II. Position Qualifications:

Bachelor's Degree in Occupational Therapy or a bachelor's degree with a certificate or diploma for successful completion of a post-degree program in Occupational Therapy. Successful completion of AOTA certification exam, or eligible and scheduled for next sitting. Current MA state license as Occupational Therapist is required.

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

Department-specific competencies, including age-specific competencies, and their measurements will be developed and maintained in the individual departments.

III. Physical Demands and Environmental Conditions:

Work is considered medium. Position requires work indoors in a patient care environment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We're striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health – for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.

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